Nantucket -- ...the 3 Bricks. These Greek Revival homes have five bay facades and classical porticos and sit on raised granite basements. They were the finest residences of their day on the still über-fashionable upper Main Street. The architect/mason would get around $500 for building such a house -- or a little more than what the value of the sperm oil of a large whale. These houses were typically built for those who owned the assets of the whaling industry (ships and processing plants as the industry became tightly vertically integrated.) The captains of such ships and their seamen lived in much humbler surroundings (when not on their even more humble boats).In this case, the homes were built in 1836 for the 3 surviving sons of Joseph Starbuck. This was the peak of Nantucket whaling and Starbuck's ships would bring him oil worth an estimated $2.5 million in days when you paid someone $500 to build a mansion.We'll talk about coffee later, so hold your Starbuck questions (and hold the Folgers as well.)
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